Iraq War about Oil?
WMD's wasnt it? Must have been. Otherwise the the public of US, UK & AU knowingly re-elected three war criminals.
Now somehow the US link it to the War on Terror - which of course has become a self fulfilling prophecy, as the Coalition of the Drilling have now fostered the greatest recruiting campaign for al-Qaeda.
Look, this is a magnet for any young man, who, like in Afghanistan, like Osama bin Laden himself in the '80s, you want to serve the cause, you pack up, and you go. It's the same with the money. If you want to give money for the jihad, then you want it to go where it's needed most and where it's sexiest. ... And Iraq is the hot place to be. It's the hot place to give your money, and if you want to serve anywhere in jihad, then this is the place to come. This is where you can fight the infidel, the great Satan himself, face to face.
Now, when you go home from your tour of duty, and you sit around the mosque or the teahouse, and you can say, "I was there; I fought in Iraq," that silences a room. And what we're now seeing is not only the physical building of this generation, [but] through the boundless promise that the Internet has offered the jihad world, there's a whole generation that's been inspired. Look how much has now been done in the name of Iraq and in retribution: from the London bombings to Bali and estranged involvement here in Iraq.
It's re-enlivened the entire organization and the cause and the idea. [For Abu Musab] al- Zarqawi and his immediate organization, [and] more broadly [for] Al Qaeda, they are the main beneficiaries of this war. The very thing George Bush says he came here to prevent, he is actually fostering and giving life to. It has to be the greatest irony of this whole experience.
- Michael Ware - TIME Magazine Baghdad Bureau Chief (An Aussie)
Interesting to read that KBR (part of Halliburton) lost the Iraq US DOD fuel supply contract after overcharging - by $1.2bn! Good to have Dead-Eye Dick looking after things isn't it!